The Official Washington Wizards Thread

[Sticksboi05]

If Ted had to sell a team and move it, I'd hope it was the Wiz cause NBA games live are boring whereas hockey games are action, hitting, physical etc. BUT, I would sure as hell want no team out of D.C. Ted needs pressure to fire Ernie. This is a joke. A Mickey Mouse organization.

[spjunkies]

Blache is on 106.7 now trying to explain himself and he's not doing a very good job of it.

[pjfootballer]

Yeah it'd be awful to have no NBA team to root for.

I wonder if I'm going to have a championship NBA team to root for in my lifetime?

We practically don't have an NBA team to root for as they stand.

When I witnessed the back to back Finals in 77-78 and 78-79, I was sure one day they'd get back. 33 years later....

[RonArtest15]

Blache is on 106.7 now trying to explain himself and he's not doing a very good job of it.

what'd he say?

this is also from last night

@johnschuhmann Andray Blatche to reporters in BKN locker room: "Anybody seen how the Wizards are doing?"

I loathe this man...straight up.

[spjunkies]

what'd he say?

this is also from last night




I loathe this man...straight up.

A whole bunch of nothing. Pretty much just said that everything was the organizations fault and they never had his back. I'm sure they will put the interview up on their website.

[RonArtest15]

A whole bunch of nothing. Pretty much just said that everything was the organizations fault and they never had his back. I'm sure they will put the interview up on their website.

I'm guessing they'll have a recap of the interview on BF later on.

Dude on RealGM who sits near Leonsis said that he was visably pissed last night. Change(s) might be coming. Hopefully.

*Why doesnt hands11 post here anymore? I see him on realGM all the time, but I was wondering why he split from ES?

[Monk4thaHALL]

Have they won yet?

I'm too lazy to look ... or care.

[spjunkies]

Have they won yet?

I'm too lazy to look ... or care.

Nope

[G.A.C.O.L.B.]

I'm guessing they'll have a recap of the interview on BF later on.

Dude on RealGM who sits near Leonsis said that he was visably pissed last night. Change(s) might be coming. Hopefully.

*Why doesnt hands11 post here anymore? I see him on realGM all the time, but I was wondering why he split from ES?

Did he cry when we amnestied Blatche?

[stevemcqueen1]

Blatche, paying you 35 million dollars for what you left out on the court wasn't having your back? STFU, count your millions, and be grateful there was a team stupid enough out there for you to dupe into that kind of money. You're going to be hoping there's another one out there like us this summer.

[spjunkies]

Here is a link to the interview.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/?podc...CBS.WASHINGTON

[WhoRUSupposed2Be]

Blatche, paying you 35 million dollars for what you left out on the court wasn't having your back? STFU, count your millions, and be grateful there was a team stupid enough out there for you to dupe into that kind of money. You're going to be hoping there's another one out there like us this summer.

Has he even been getting any minutes off the bench?

[StillUnknown]

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2012/11/...urs-recap-2012

Monday's Spurs game was what rock bottom looks like. Imagine watching an NBA exhibition game, surrounded by people who don't know why or how they got there, interrupted every few minutes for the Chipotle Burrito Dash or cheerleaders dancing to an ear-splitting David Guetta song, and ending with the (meaningless) outcome guaranteed by halftime. A bad regular season basketball game is a special circle of hell. Monday was even worse because it was a definitive barometer for everything the Wizards have never, ever been. Especially not recently.

To put the recent past in perspective: The English Premier League relegates the three worst teams to a lower division every year. This costs the teams millions in revenue, and hijacks the entire franchise for years at a time. If the NBA relegated teams, the Wizards would've been relegated in three of the last four years. In the odd year they finished one game better than the Raptors as the fourth-worst team in basketball. In a rational universe, this would make the Wizards a failing business. Instead they charge full price, sponsors and TV revenue help them turn profits, and the Chipotle Burrito Dash rolls on.

Sure, some of the failure has been by design to overhaul the roster with lottery picks. But at what point does "sucking by design" become "sucking by nature"? These are the questions that pop into your head when you watch your favorite team get methodically destroyed at home, in front of a crowd that's more or less apathetic except for the Verizon T-Shirt Toss.

It stung even worse because they were playing Spurs, the team that can sign cast-off veterans and turn them into weapons and take misfit rookies and make them stars. The team whose fossilizing superstars have every excuse to take games off all year long, but still show up every night and beat the hell out of teams. The Spurs are all the cliches about professionalism and culture brought to life.

The Wizards are the team that spent a summer adding cast-off veterans for the sake of professionalism and culture, only to see the whole thing fail miserably. Even with classy veterans who aren't Andray Blatche, the Wizards are still the Wizards. The Wizards always find a way to be the Wizards.

more in the link

[stevemcqueen1]

Has he even been getting any minutes off the bench?

Yeah he's been playing in Brooklyn. He's had a few good games so far, been scoring better and playing harder. He's on a one year deal. He's trying to trick some team into paying him this summer.

[Buford]

everybody on twitter should send a link to that article to @TedLeonsis with a note that its true.